Razor-qt is an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and an intuitive interface. Unlike most desktop environments, Razor-qt also works fine with weak machines.

in my quick test the memory usage is almost the same of the kde session but this might vary according to the configurations.

issues:so far i found 2 (but they may be related to the settings i have in kde)1- network-manager doesn't remember the p/w at login (the field is always blank), once inputted in systemsettings (the panel applet doesn't have that functionality that i can see- actually that network monitor is not in the panel by default) it works just fine;

2- the right-click menu (wonderful btw) is almost black but again this might be related to the bespin settings in the kde session

EDIT:according to the wiki and the feedback gathered in the topic until now i believe that the dependencies in a vanilla lmde install should be something like:

Install devscripts package to get debuild (and about 50 packages in addition ).

For LightDM users: if you want to build Razor-lightdm-greeter, you need to install liblightdm-qt-1-dev before build. If it's not installed, there won't be any errors, the build system will just skip this step and say this:

-- LightDM Greeter is a part of razor-qt build-- Checking for lightdm-qt...-- checking for module 'liblightdm-qt-2'-- package 'liblightdm-qt-2' not found-- lightdm2 for Qt is not found. Trying to find v1-- checking for module 'liblightdm-qt-1'-- package 'liblightdm-qt-1' not found-- Qt bindings for liblightdm not found. Razor-lightdm-greeter won't be built-- Hint: On debian or debian-derived distributions you could probably do: sudo apt-get install liblightdm-qt-1-dev-- On suse or opensuse distribution: lightdm-qt-devel

Looks like there's a LOT of apps to install before you can turn this DE into a full-fledged desktop without any GTK+ apps or libraries

I've compiled it on a virtual LMDE UP5 machine which has only MATE and Cinnamon. No kwin, no KDE libs, just the -dev stuff needed to build razor-qt. So the appearance is pretty much horrible now.

Here's the list of my issues:

Couldn't find any Qt-based Synaptic alternative.

Same for the network manager applet.

GTK+ 2 and 3 apps (e.g. MATE terminal and nm applet) and Qt apps with style set to GTK+ look like Windows 95. Gotta find some more engines and themes, I guess. I'm quite confused about what exactly I need to install... maybe something qtcurve-related?

In addition, if I set Qt style to GTK+, qtconfig ignores my font setting (I've tried to set it to Ubuntu instead of Sans Serif).

The panel seems to dislike any size less than 32. The icons stick out from the bottom of the screen. The taskbar buttons shrink, and there seems no way to make them expand vertically to take up the whole space.

Hi, zerozero. I'm glad you started up this project. It seems pretty mystifying to me, but I'm bookmarking the thread, so one day when I feel especially adventurous, I will give it a try. I've been using Razor-Qt DE on Kubuntu and it's working very well. I had installed it to a few systems, OpenSuse KDE, Lubuntu. I also tried a newer one, I can't think of the name at the moment, but it came with. I found R-Qt worked best on Kubuntu, at least on my computer. One surprising thing, again on my computer, maybe not for all, I don't see R-Qt in the same class as LXDE and Xfce, in terms of quickness. It pulls more on the CPU and uses more RAM than either of those, though perhaps this is because of the base system and one day it will have its own OS behind it. For me, it runs KDE-like, which is to say very well on my machine. It is certainly good-looking and pleasant to use. I did look at installing it with Debian, but I didn't grasp much of what I was reading, so I was thinking of adding it to LMDEKDE (fantastic release) to give it a spin. Of course, it wasn't in the repository, as you point out, and this compiling business has to take place. Thank you for doing this work. I'll let you know how I make out.

got it again installed (this time in vb - lmde-2012.04 mate-cinnamon edition)with some helpers i think we can solve some of the issues Monsta points out above:what i installed:lxappeareance and qt4-qtconfig

Do you think it's possible to compile this on a command line only install of Debian testing? I mean, you don't need a DE installed to do this, right? I really want to build a system from the ground up, making it as "qt only" as possible instead of installing razorqt on an existing system. I'm not having much luck trying the Ubuntu mini.iso install and Razor's PPA.

One of you guys wouldn't want to make your compiled .deb available, would you?

Other build steps are pretty much the same as in zerozero's howto post: install the missing dependencies makeDeb complains about, re-run it, wait.

When the build is finished, first install some display manager and window manager. This should also pull a lot of Xorg-related stuff.I've chosen LightDM and Openbox. But... much to my disappointment, LightDM depends on

The result is pretty much bare desktop which doesn't even have a terminal or a web browser.

After that I thought "well, since GTK+ stuff couldn't be avoided, why not install some more" and installed mint-themes, mint-x-icons and gnome-screenshot (it doesn't have gnome dependencies really, only GTK+). Oh yeah, and firefox to upload the screenshots. That required adding packages.linuxmint.com to the sources list and installing linuxmint-keyring, of course.

qtconfig

lxappearance (it really helps, thanks zerozero, I've used this tool before but totally forgot about it)